What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

A blood line is something you're born into. A Family is something you create.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.