Take a long breath, hold your breath for some time before releasing it each time,…that will enlarge your lungs a bit. A very useful tip for Corona times.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.  

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.