You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

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.

Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit.

By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!

Shoemaker stick to your last.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.