I found out what the secret to life is - friends. Best friends.

You are richer for doing things.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.