Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.