The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
Where there is no waste, there is no want.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays. " Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.
Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.