Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Mike took a deep breath and locked all his muscles in place, so he didn’t follow her. His fingers tingled where he had touched her skin, it was so soft, he’d never felt anything as soft.

Passions are the gales of life.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.