On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.