I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.