Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.