A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.