Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.