Man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

no matter how little it might seem, if you are doing it for the Lord and you are doing it with a pure heart, it is not a waste of time

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.