Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not sleep for the favor of the kings of the world.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.