Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind, ” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.

They always win who side with God.

And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.