Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.