You know my children that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal which is modified by that of the whole.

Only self-love spreads true love.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]

The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.