Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.