Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Why is Monday so far away from Friday but Friday is so close to Monday

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society or what is worse looking as if he stifled grief.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.