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.

When a child comes in I believe that it's 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.

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

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

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.

Truly charismatic people in my experience don't come along very often.

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.

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

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

There are such beings as vampires some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

In my experience it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field the results have been disastrous.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience a greater maturity of practical reason and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience therefore would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Breathe-in experience breathe-out poetry.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

As for the forces electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.

I can only speak from my own personal experience being behind the camera and in front of it but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.