Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

We need to find means for cooperation.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.