We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

To really know someone is to havelove and hated him in turn.

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.