Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

And our dreams are who we are.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Isolation is a dream killer.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Doing what you love isnt a priviledge its an obligation.

As soon as you start to pursue a dream your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Go out and make a difference in your community. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.

There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.

The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.

I would have loved to have played Spider-Man.

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.

I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

Lets face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion but heavy dependence isnt healthy either. The only position of long term strength is interdependence winwin.

Being a big sister is to love your brother, even if he does not want it or love you in return.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice.