If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

What befalls me couldn’t have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.