You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

He was trying to save both his faces.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

I was incredibly different as a child from everybody else. But really, I was just who I was. I was born that way.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.