You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

Oh that was your girl? I thought I recognized her.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.

If you're not a Christian, you're going to hell. It's not unloving to say that. it's unloving not to say that.

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.