Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

There is some pain that nothing heals" [Zarek}