“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.

Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Get vaccinated – not just for yourself, but for your community.

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.