Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Life is a state of consciousness.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

Criticism is an indirect form of self boasting.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.

You must not under any pretence allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling but thats a myth and its often propagated by venture capitalists.

I would love to win a slam by the end of my career, and I would love to achieve other things. It's just that I am not a patient guy. When I want something, I try to get it as quickly as I can.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

It’s important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

GNOSTICS n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Trust is like a piece of paper, once it's crumpled it can't be perfect again.

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

If you don't know the struggle, you don't know your strength.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.