“The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.”

Only one who loves can remember so well.

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.