If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.

People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.