Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.