Ambition never comes to an end.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

The harder the fight, the greater the victory.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

I make films about working class people.

I just happen to love fighting and happen to be great at it. And I let my lifestyle carry over into my chosen profession.

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.