If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.