I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

The absence of fear is love.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.