The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.

The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

Music and yoga have a great synergy.

I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.