The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

I plan for all obstacles, I prepare with care, I worry endlesslyfor the road aheadIn all this, I forgetto enjoy small momentsof my present journey

If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'