I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

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.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong.