True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

"FlashForward" was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for "Blade: Trinity" and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.