When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.

Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.

Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth.

A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.

Winners are those who defeat defeat.

Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.

Always ask, ‘Do you love me?’ before saying, ‘I love you.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Don't worry about what you can't do; focus instead on what you can do... and then do it.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259

On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.