Look the negative effect into positive action

Remember to always feel/think about your gratitude

Add new things to your life

Carry your dreams into the top of the hill

Always think you can do it

Don't think you are unable to do that, just think you can

Want to do something positive?

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

You won't really see me at any events, any nightclubs.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

The Devil makes work for idle hands to do

Be kind to yourself.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice.