In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

Whatever it was that came over him that night pulled a cord—her laugh, or her surprise gasp slipping out to think he’d do something so bold.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.