Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.

I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.

Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life.

The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Outside every thin girl is a fat man trying to get in.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.