Change can be difficult, but it give us the best challenges. You’ll always feel the need to give up and say you can’t do it anymore. Then it leads you back to the very beginning where you started.

You’ll suddenly have motivation for a period of time to change your daily routines, bad habits, and etc. Then lose the motivation. Why?

Why do we lose motivation? There is a lot of strength and effort to change. It’s seems so simple, but yet so difficult.

Change can be anything. Nobody really talks about change...well not that I’ve heard.

Majority people are afraid to change. You can say “I love change, change is for the better” But deep inside if change flipped your life around will you still love it? Or will your opinion change?

What is the big fear of “change?” Well let’s get real...nobody knows. We are naturally afraid because we don’t know what is ahead of us and what the future hold in our hands. We are afraid of what if’s...

The key to a self-fulfilled life lies in consistent selfless deeds.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

Religions have become a hindrance rather than a help to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings less sensitive to the demands of justice compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables x2015 with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now.

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?