Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

If you have nothing nice to say? Don't say nothing at all

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers