One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Awe is what moves us forward.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

You can also make your flaws work for you.

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.