Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

I am selfish. I am brave.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.