What you don't know will hurt you.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Sometimes things don't end okay.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."