“Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.”

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.

Your purpose is why you you’re living, your vision is how you’re going to execute it.

Are your thoughts empowering or limiting?

Learn to follow the quiet voice within that speaks in feelings rather than words; follow what you ‘hear’ inside, rather than what others may be telling you to do.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit – it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you’re following the wrong path.

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

You are the mental architect of your own destiny.

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

If your goal isn’t scary and exciting, then it’s not a big enough goal for you.

The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting – we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression.

When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.

Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using the secret.

When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what’s happened. Nothing will stop you.

The weight of your body is controlled by the image in your mind.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

In the industry, you do need some ethics – if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.