Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.