It takes more courage to smile than to frown. So meet the world with a smile and the courageous will smile back.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice?

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind