The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.
Today things are better than yesterday.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
High thoughts must have high language.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.