There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.