Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.

It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.