Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Find your center and stay there.

[H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.