The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.