Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.