The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.