It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.

It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Basically when I hear the words family drama I run in the opposite direction.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Easy does it.

Music is such a part of my soul.

I live for the text. It's my job.

Three horrible facts: 1. Today is not friday 2. Tomorrow is not Friday 3. Even the day after tomorrow is not Friday.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

When family ties are disturbed devoted children arise.

It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.