As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.

I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white. They are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.

There was a thing called Heaven

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

Hope is not an illusion.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

You're only as good as your last picture.