One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

To pray well is the better half of study.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I definitely get a little antsy when I haven't had a good fix!

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.