To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Great character is forged through hardships.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.