You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.