It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.

Faith is courage.

People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.

Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

It is impossible to know the whole depth of someone’s character from a single moment, but seeing how they respond to the unexpected is a great start.

Acting courageously is about knowing and making the right choices based on a deep conviction that dwarfs fear, doubt, and worry.

Just shred baby, shred.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.