People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.