Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Everyone has limitations. Know that when you always say “I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.