You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.