When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.