How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

I couldn't be more blessed.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture.

I've never been called a man of few words.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.