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I was raised Catholic.
We are what make up society.
I think laughter is a sacred act.
Definition is the death of discovery.
Technology is not good, it's neutral.
I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
What matters is who we are, not who we beat.
Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs
Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.