You have to be present, awake and happy now.

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.