I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

God (mentally on my knees), if I can just get through this night, I'll come to church. On Christmas. Every fifteen years. For the next fifteen years. So once.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose.... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

You can't listen to the news. You have to go with the facts. You need to use a logical approach and have the discipline to apply it. You must be able to control your emotions.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.