The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Choose being kind over being right and youll be right every time.

When you focus not on what you want but on what you have you end up getting more of what you want anyway.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Love -- giving and receiving from the heart -- involves ... peace

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask question.

Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is gravy.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.

To be on purpose means youre doing what you love to do doing what youre good at and accomplishing whats important to you.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.