Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

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.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.