There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

You can go as far as you think, imagine and dream. Anything is possible.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.