Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

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.

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.