Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.