When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.