Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.

When the buying stops, the killing can too.