Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach.

The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.