We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

I believe in spirits. I believe in faith. I believe in spirituality. I believe in aliens as well.

My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.