The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

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.

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!