The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

There is no truth in him.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.