No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not receptive." "If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.