Learn the way and find your own way.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.