Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Seek to give much -- expect nothing.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.