The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.