Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but I will surely kill you.

Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.

But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?

It's in a can. It's good forever.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating