Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.