Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.