Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

Make sure you surround yourself with positive people that will support you and push you forward and won't drag you down or get in your way.

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

Think good, speak good, and be good.

Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

Dream big and love bigger.

Watch your thoughts. They turn into words, then turn into actions.

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.