If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.

Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.

Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.

Money doesn't change who you are; it magnifies who you really are.

I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.