We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
To think is not enough, you must think of something.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. . . one step at a time.
I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of endeavor where I could meet people but still blow people's minds with a very inspiring point of view. So, a shoe store.
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
What I always tell people is. . . Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere.
I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!
I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.
If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. . . the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Don't live life in the past lane.