You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

A nickel is not worth a penny more.