In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.