If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.