Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?

Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz

I have come to hide you, ” darkness told the star. “I'm too bright, ” the defiant star replied.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.