Meir Soloveichik Quotes

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas.

All the negativity that was once around me has turned into all this positivity.

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

There's always hope in 'The Fosters.' These are fundamentally good people who are all trying their best and making some terrible, terrible decisions, but they're trying their best. And there's always hope for those people.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.