Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

Dare to dream... something will always come of it

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.