Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.