In life, our mindset determines which road we travel on. One road is paved in scarcity and the other road is filled with abundance at every turn. In any moment, we can choose to change which road we want to travel on.

The secret to having it all is believing you already do

1. Thinking Big vs Thinking Small Thinking Big opens horizons, lifts limitations in my mind and enables me to achieve higher goals.

2. Plenty vs Lack I can afford what I want in life, there is plenty of everything in the world from resources, love, relationships, wealth and opportunities.

You never get beyond scarcity, you have to start beyond it.

3. Happiness vs Resentment I am optimistic and I can be genuinely happy for others.

4. Embracing Change vs Fear Of Change Change is an natural part of life and can create beautiful outcomes, but sometimes the transitions can be painful. Search for the good.

5. Proactive vs Reactive I actively create my future based on my values, priorities and goals.

6. Learning vs Knowing It All My natural curiosity and my thirst for knowledge help me to constantly develop and improve my skills.

7. What Is Working vs What Is Not Working I am focusing on "What is working", I am open minded and like to explore and try new opportunities.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I'm obsessed with jackets.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

It's always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.