In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

Your pain and sufferings can only make you stronger if you aren't repeatedly placing negative interpretations them.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

Packing is my pet hate.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Im not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.