It’s best to have a small boat of friends where everyone rows than an ark of friends where no one does. At least you’re getting somewhere.

God brings wonderful people into our lives. He also takes people out to protect us from harm. When we roll with God’s grace, we feel his wisdom.

The reason a lot of people can’t find happiness is because they don’t look for it. They allow themselves to be stuck in the same situations. Sometimes happiness comes with the courage to break free.

Never adjust your day to suit someone else’s happiness. When riding on God’s good grace, roll with things your way.

The whole world would be much happier if everyone was just average.

When you surround yourself with wonderful, productive people, you become enhanced. Your level of happiness increases, which is your success.

When we face every challenge with optimism and learn to fail with our heads up, a great attitude is always success, no matter the outcome.

When I look at your smile, I can see your heart. When I look at your heart, it makes me smile back.

The right path in life will always come with patience. It’s when we reach an understanding that everything happens in God’s time that we walk the right path.

I think we spend more time thinking of things to deal with than just letting them go. When we quiet our minds, that’s true freedom.

We all reach a point in our lives where time is the most expensive thing we have.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.