I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
I look for what needs to be done
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work.