“Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.”

The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand.

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

Your “I CAN” is more important than your IQ.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success.

Take care of your dreams. Or your fears will care for them for you.

If you’re not thinking for yourself, then you’re following-not leading.

It wasn’t until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

You’ll know you’re amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure.

We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences.

Become one of the rare people who don’t know how to quit.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.

A parent knows better than any book or “expert” what their kid really needs.

There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.

I’m just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, “And let there be aluminum siding.” Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree’s on a golf course, all the better.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.