There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
I consider myself a crayon. . . I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional love”unconditional love iswe don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.
Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.