A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.