As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

The more you judge, the less you love.

Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.