I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?