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.

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.

Kindness and humility shows the depth in our character.

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

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.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists.

As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I'll create more comedy. It's just when I shut off and stay at home... What helps me is just to keep moving.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher-fidelity than the lowest-common-denominator technology. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use.

The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.

You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.