Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

Be resolved that honor is heavier than the mountains and death lighter than the feather.

Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.