If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Discipline is creating the situation.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.