I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like ‚Man of Tai Chi‘ just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I’m looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

One man with courage is a majority.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.