"Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!"

“Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.”

“The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.”

“Success and failure are equally surprising.”

“Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.”

“Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.”

“The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.”

“Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt