To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

In order to be successful you must decide to be intentional about what you do, how you live, and who you are becoming.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

A good deed is a good deed.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.