I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.