Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

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.

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

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

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself.

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

Money is just something to be circulated.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.