A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I don't wanna lose you And I always wanna feel this way Cause everytime I'm with you I feel true love, true love.

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.