A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

If you don't know where you are going, you can arrive at any destination.

Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care.

Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are repressive are often at threat.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.