"I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."

“Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.”

Source : "Mountain of Snakes (Part II)" by Sean Penn, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

“Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken”

“Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.”

“I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.”

“You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.”

Source : "‘Firefly’: Summer Glau reflects on Joss Whedon, sci-fi women and River’s edge". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 3, 2011.

“We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.”

“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.”

“People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.