The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.