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

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.

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

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

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

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

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you did my heart fly at your service.

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.

The first time you marry for love the second for money and the third for companionship.

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

Musical theatre is my first love.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Grandmother grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

I won't try and combine training and a family.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'