All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?

I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.