Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

You are what you are most profoundly thankful for, and what you love.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.