There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.