Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Kindness is the best prayer

If we dare the difficult, we shall find the depth of being.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.