To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.

Not only believe in yourself but trust in yourself. Confidence will bloom.

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.