Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.