Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Science creates scientists...who creates godmen?

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.