It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.