War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.