We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.