Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

Only God would adore his own death.

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

There are way too many comedians now.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.