Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

America is not what's wrong with the world.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.