So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.