Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.