The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

The truth has become an insult.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.