I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity.

Happiness dies when not shared

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

I was born to be a fighter. But being a fighter does not mean that I have to live in rage. When I fight, I live in my emotions. But maybe... my emotions don't have to trap me anymore.

He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.