Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

A more holistic view encompassing mental, emotional, financial, social and spiritual wellness is as important as physical health, is now defined, understood, and aspirational.

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

I think my spirit is far greater than it's ever been.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.

I wanted to make a movie once at Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a cabin, which I now have. We actually planned, we wrote a whole screenplay about a kind of Indian spiritual group that was at Lake of the Woods. We weren't calling it that but it was Lake of the Woods. We wrote a whole screenplay about it but we couldn't get funding for it.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.