The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

This is what she hated about hot guys. That warm and fuzzy feeling she got when one of them anointed her as worthy.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.