There's a way out of every situation.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.