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.

I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature.

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

India somehow constantly rivets and inspires me, and I feel very relieved to have come from this country which has a very 'lifeist' approach to living fully, no matter what one has or doesn't have.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I'm homemade. I upload my videos in my living room; I edit everything, and I upload on my laptop. And my viewers love that about me, and they get inspired and do it themselves.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our hearts, intrigue our minds, and embrace our very souls.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.