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Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

I don't see coming to Kerala as a commercial exercise; it's a human venture. Every film I make, I come here. I am the prodigal son.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

You don't have to choose between June Cleaver or Barbara Walters. There are miles of space between them.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.

Leonard (Cohen) never broke my heart, but his songs have, every time I sing or hear one of them. As Leonard says, “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.