People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Things past redress are now with me past care