If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

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

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

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.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.

I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.