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.

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.

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

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

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

I am an outside person; if I don't get outside, I get a little crazy.

He is the most perfect Muslim whose disposition is best; and the best of you are they who behave best to their wives.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.

When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting schedule and then consult with the hair and make-up designers.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Fake friends are like shadows always near you at your brightest moments but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars you dont always see them but they are always there.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.