We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.

Everything is determined by your interpretation of what happens. You can change the meaning of what happens through your perception of events or memories.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.