The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Did she want him as badly as he wanted her? Did she realize he was slowly going insane for wanting her?

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

I'd never been published when I was young.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?

I really like individualism based on truth.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.