Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.