Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

She's like a hurricane on crystal meth.

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.