There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.