I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.

Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.