You need to start paying other people to do stuff for you even before you feel you are ready.

You can never lose time and get it back again.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.