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

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.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

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

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.