Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

They send their shout to the stars. [Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

The only cure for addiction is spiritual.

Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.

When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.