“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery, the joy and the depth.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

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.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.