Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose… one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.