Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.