You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!

Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Good authour Good books

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.