This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.