Your disability is your opportunity.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

There is more in you than you think.

Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

Beauty brings us back to the now.

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.