The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

Life is a disease.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.