I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I just want to lobby for God.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

No man is hurt but by himself.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I read the Bible every day.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I’m much healthier now.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.