We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

Your vulnerability is your power.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.