“There’s sort of a theory that’s going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.”

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It’s not just a physical discipline.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

I’ve made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I’d love to do theater.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I’ll be very happy.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that ‘we are on your side.’

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.