"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face."

“Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

“Time is what creates trust.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Talk "Boyhood", Tackling the Ambitious Project, Deleted Scenes, Keeping in Contact, Pop Culture Trends, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2014.

“Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy.”

“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.”

“The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”

“In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”

“You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough.”