The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

A wonderful place to start is to seek role models who exemplify this way of being and try their style on for size.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.