There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

He who does not work, will not eat

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for anything to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.