If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.

Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.

...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.