To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.