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.

When you grow older, you love again, and the new love feels so different that the love before feels like make-believe. The way you love changes throughout your life. Even the way you love the same person changes.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to bed with satisfaction.

Cities are places for people who can stand the heat of the kitchen.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that carbs are bad. It's a fad right now. Full disclosure: I'm sponsored by Barilla. But I've always been free about saying I love carbs, including pasta, in moderation.

Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Hope is the companion of power and mother of success for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.