For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.

You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

I just write what I want to write.

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.