A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.