It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
. . . the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
The most powerful moral influence is example.
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!
If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.