Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.