We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.