There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.