The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.

The only way to pass a test is to take the test

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.

Other blokes might take advantage, but to Tom, the idea of honor was a kind of antidote to some of the things he'd lived through.

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.