There are no words that can bring you down unless you allow them to.

Another day is another chance to be a better version of ourselves. If we hope to meet people with amazing characters and souls, what better way to begin than to show them the best example.

We have the power to be anyone we want to be... But we have the responsibility to make sure that our power is not blinded by our pride.

Kindness and humility shows the depth in our character.

We often look at others and envy the person they have become. Have you ever wondered how many people are feeling the same way about you? That puts things into perspective.

Courage is gained when we explore our deepest feelings, face our fears and trust our inner strength.

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.

Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.

Cancer is really hard to go through and its really hard to watch someone you love go through and I know because I have been on both sides of the situation.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

If you think good design is expensive you should look at the cost of bad design.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

There's no substitute for guts.

We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.