It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.