Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.