“I was raised to treat people exactly how I would like to be treated by others. It’s called respect.”

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction.

I thank the earth and the sky every day for the opportunities I’ve had.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

There’s nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.

Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.

When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

No matter what you do or say, there’s nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

The world sucks, people are not true.

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.