Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.