It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.
Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.
I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal – you are somewhere you’ve never been.
I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.