You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

Make a difference. Live a life that matters.

Act with integrity. Live up to your idea of who you are.

Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Apply true focus to what you do best.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.