There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

You never play age, you play character.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.