If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.