We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

If you are focused on God, then all “mountains” are under your feet.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.