It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.

My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

We will expand the number of border patrol stations significantly.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.