As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

On great fields something stays.

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

I've never done Something Rotten either.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

Collaboration is really important.