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You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.