If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I installed a skylight in my apartment...The people who live above me arefurious!

Simple things make us Happy but we pursue the complicated. We get caught in a maze and Happiness remains a Distant Dream.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication.

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.