When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

Music can change the world.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.