Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

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

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.