A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

It's all about having fun and feeling good!

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.