Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

Thus I steer my bark and sail On even keel with gentle gale.

I like children - fried.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

When the beauties come together, there emerges a super beauty!

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.