As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.