True humility is contentment.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Welcome to Ruler’s purgatory. It’s the special club you love to hate.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.