When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.