The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Arise in mighty strength and pursue your dream.

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.

Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.