Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.

If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.