If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.