Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Your dreams will come true, but only when they’re supposed to and not a moment before.

It’s surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it....

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don’t will be left by the wayside.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet?...

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

I like documentaries because there’s nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren’t just right. It’s about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that...

Scientology always makes me think of that movie ‘V’ where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

This book says ‘life isn’t fair’ and I’m telling you, one and all, you betterbelieve it. I got a fat spoiled son�he’s not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he’s always gonna be fat, evenif he...

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they’ve found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that’s still true today. An actor, a...

It’s kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It’s also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So...

Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.

Be true to yourself and don’t live your life according to other people’s dreams and wants.

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be...

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

There’s too much coldness in the world,” I told her. “If people would only talk things out together it would help.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true...

We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they...

I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just...

I think it’s unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.

What’s true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That’s why the most resilient things in our world – biological life, stock markets,...

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny…

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that’s not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not – I mean, things...

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of ‘Seinfeld.’ He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him,...

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he...

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.

It’s such a silly little thing, the heart.

Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I’ll bet...

Time is real or not…This is the true question.

It’s true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want...

‘Avatar’ is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it’s put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a...

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God’s church.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Hollywood, young or otherwise, is a very trend-driven town, and that can get a little out of hand at times. I just try to stay true to my own personal taste – incorporating my personality...

We imagine that human nature doesn’t change. We like to say that but I don’t think it’s true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was...

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.