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.

I really like acting in English.

I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.

We will decide who comes to our country.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.