I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

There’s no secret to success, but if there were one, it would be that your decisions create your success or lack of it and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.