If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

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.

On the shining yards of heavenSee a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beautyAre the masters of the world.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

anytime you enjoy the sweet fruits of the tree, remember the dirty roots of the tree

The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.