It’s a paradox; only when you desire fear, will you be able to take action in its presence—which is what courage consists of.

Higher forces must be experienced directly, and that takes effort. That means you'll face the same stark choice I did: demand proof that you'll never receive, or use the tools in the face of your doubts. When I stopped thinking and focused on the tools, my reward was life changing faith.

Fear is almost always linked to an image you have of something terrible happening in the future. To develop courage, you have to give up this illusion of future certainty.

There’s a hidden, inner strength that you cannot find unless you push yourself through adversity.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too … raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.

A few rare individuals refuse to live limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. They also handle the small, tedious pain required for personal discipline, forcing themselves to do things we all know we should do.

Most of us choose avoidance instead. As a result, we don’t live up to our potential, never becoming fully ourselves.

The more intense the pain—and the more aggressively you move into it—the more energy you’ll create.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart.

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

The best thing about telling the truth is...you dont have to remember what you said

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that someone is us.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I tend to be slightly fastidious in the company I keep. As a woman, you almost need to be.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.

Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

If you cant get people to listen to you any other way tell them its confidential.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them.

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.