One of the most powerfulquestions you can ask yourself is, ‘How do I hold myself back?’Once you know the answeryou can get out of your way.

Sometimes being happy willrequire some difficult conversations.Some of those conversationswill be with yourself.

If someone tries to undermineyour commitment, re-evaluateyour commitment to them.

Identify your driving motivationand you will have all theencouragement you need.

To be happy, you need to dothe right thing for you, even when it feels like thehardest thing in the world.

Live your life with courageousintegrity. Do the right thing, not the easy thing.

There is a big difference betweenbeing self-ist and being selfish—putting yourself first doesn’t meanyou have to put everyone else last.

The most importantcommitment you will ever makeis to being the best you can be.

Being the best you can betakes courage. You need to ownyour decisions and have thecourage to see them through.

It’s easy to be brave wheneverything is going your way.When the going gets tough, it takes courage to followthe path you believe in.

Be honest with yourself.You can’t be the bestyou can be unless you knowwho you really are.

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.

Sir Bedevere: "Tell me, what do you do with witches?" Crowd: "Burn, burn them up!" Sir Bedevere: "And what do you burn apart from witches?" Villager: "More witches!

Dream chasers are full of strength, are full of desire, are passionate and they cling unto their dreams until they produce life.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.