No dream is ever just a dream.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.

The young never expected to die.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

Quotes are made we to think, we have made a mistake so quotes will put us in the right way? (But can we understand them - is the best question)

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

I want to make a name for myself.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.