I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.