. . . Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.
The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you are a sinner, that you are a degraded person. If you think that you are a sinner, it means you are meditating on sin! When sin has become the object of your meditation, you will become a sinner, because a person becomes just like the object of his or her ideation. We become the object of our meditation.
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.
The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.