To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC, ' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.

Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.