Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

The early bird gets the worm that should have slept in.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.