For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.