Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.