To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.