One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

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.

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

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.

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.