I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don’t enjoy.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.

Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.