Rod Lurie Quotes

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

One creates oneself.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.