"If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about."

"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"

"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."

"Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone."

"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."

"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."

"Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent."