I don't get mad too much.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

I don't get mad too much.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Failure is not about insecurity its about lack of execution.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

Tobacco is also a drug it works slow like a slug you won't even feel a bug but it is making you an ignorant mug and then on your welcome rug, Cancer will greet you with a warm hug your death bed is being dug so stop tobacco now, don't ignore and shrug.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

There is no bad in good.

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

There's so many great things that happened at the Grand Ole Opry in 50 years. You get the chance to go out and visit with your peers. You get a chance to sing your song and say hello to so many friends and neighbors and all that you have. It's just - well, it's a second home.

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.