You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone.

They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.