Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown

Fearing servility, people become servile.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.