Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

History is a thing of the past!

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.