And Quotes

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love.

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).

On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.

I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

AI is a bridge between art and science.