Live in the moment but just be mindful that you are working towards something.

Constantly engage, enriching your life as much as humanly possible.

You do not have to be rich to live an excessively enriched life.

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

I try to practice with my life.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.