A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

何人曾如汝欺汝之烈？

Every role I take is a piece of me, and every character I play teaches me something new.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

在商业中，如果你不前进，你就在落后。

教育者的心必须是一团活生生的火焰，是温暖和光明的源泉。