I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Intelligence is the application of knowledge.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gave you anything.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting A go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. 

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy