Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
I've been called crazy many times before.
Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
I think laughter is a sacred act.
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
