"Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend."

“The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.”

“What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.”

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

“No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.”

“By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.”

“Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.”

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”