All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.