It takes understanding to be outstanding

To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

Of course people take something good and turn it negative.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Keep starting until you finish.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.