If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.

Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.

There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

I can taste the good-bye on his lips.

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.