Another day is another chance to be a better version of ourselves. If we hope to meet people with amazing characters and souls, what better way to begin than to show them the best example.

We have the power to be anyone we want to be... But we have the responsibility to make sure that our power is not blinded by our pride.

Kindness and humility shows the depth in our character.

There are no words that can bring you down unless you allow them to.

We often look at others and envy the person they have become. Have you ever wondered how many people are feeling the same way about you? That puts things into perspective.

Courage is gained when we explore our deepest feelings, face our fears and trust our inner strength.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

I am nothing without the players.

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Sorrow comes in great wavesbut rolls over us and though it may almost smother us it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong we are stronger inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

Soldiers don't have a lobby or a political party.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.