Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness immobilized by the gravity of my loss or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.

Were never so vulnerable than when we trust someone but paradoxically if we cannot trust neither can we find love or joy

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Our lives improve only when we take chances...and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

If youre angry at a loved one hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug which is all the more reason to do so. Its hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you and thats precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Focus on the solution, not the problem.

Our lives improve only when we take chances—and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health or we suffer in our soul or we get fat.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I think that it's interesting how shows like 'Walking Dead' or even 'Game of Thrones,' with all its fantasy elements, have become so popular. Sometimes, though, I get a little bit annoyed because the whole nerd thing taking over and is now cool, and it wasn't cool when I was younger.

Sexism isn't a woman's problem, it's a man's problem.

Im stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been This too shall pass. I now understand it really well.

AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.