“I’m older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.”

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.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.