Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.

If you want it bad enough, you have to be willing to fight for it.

I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

I really enjoy what I'm doing.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.