Adversity is the true school of the mind.
Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.
Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so. . . that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.