"Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain."

“I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.”

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

“We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.”

Source : "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

“Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God”

Source : "Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects".

“Civilization itself is housed in the human being.”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

“I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.”

“Everything is s*** because we lost.”

“Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.”

“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”

Source : Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press