“Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.”

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.

The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.

I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.

I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.

I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.