The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Every man should see the birth of his children

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.