Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.