SWITCH OFF Biased Thinking Over-optimism & over-pessimism won't serve you the best. Just balance both. Be optimistic to have the energy to continue your journey, & be pessimistic to avoid possible downfalls.

This is the simplest rule for greatness and comfort: Do your best and pray for the rest.

Let's begin today, and say this everyday.

Savor the now, secure the next.

The greatest self help is to seek help from the Greatest.

Addiction is good if you are addicted to what is good.

Life is a drama - you need a role to play and a foe to slay.

SWITCH FOR a Bigger Self. You may have that childhood dream of living in an isolate paradise where everything is abundant & comfortable. But it does not help you grow. You need to envision yourself as being capable of taking risks, solving problems & dealing well with even the most unlikable persons you could imagine.

SWITCH TO B.O.L.D Goals. Don't stick too much to S.M.A.R.T goals because it ignores changes, insults your potential, and kills your passion & creativity. Instead, aim for B.O.L.D (Big, Optimistic, Liberating, Dramatic) goals.

SWITCH FROM the Busy Life. Stop acting like everybody's hero. It will just waste your precious time & energy and make them irresponsible. Instead, just follow your Path and do only the tasks w/c you can do best and w/c can make the most impact to yourself & to the world.

SWITCH ON Bullet-speed Learning & Acting! Learn from a lot of people who have already reached where you want to be right now - from their own stories of struggles, mistakes & failures. Having learned, immediately ACT! It's the non-negotiable ingredient to self-growth.

We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

It's crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind everyday.

Remember, the Boston bombers were Chechen rebels.

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

There is always room at the top.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Being a biker is more than riding a bike you feel it in your heart and in your soul.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

We have always held to the hope the belief the conviction that there is a better life a better world beyond the horizon.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.