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I think any spiritual experience that is worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, If you are not laughing, then you are not getting it.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, do not come along very often.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they are not, he'll suffer for it.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

When a child comes in, I believe that it is a multipersonhood, and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

I am not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing All the Way, I was really thinking about my wife. People do not know my personal experience, but they can tell it is an honest interpretation.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

I believe there is no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

You can not leave out half the world experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

There is nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.