If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.