If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.

She couldn’t help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone’s mistakes.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?