One must command from each what each can preform.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

life is what u make it, if you want yours to be a cake just go ahead and bake it

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

The stronger always succeeds.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.