Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Through many tribulations, we begin to search for the truth.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

I have an authority problem.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.