The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

You must not be worried about your belly but worry about your soul

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.