The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

Free ourselves from the fear of being unlike others, unloved people, unattractive, unwanted, undesirable or unworthy. Love the way you're to be better person.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.