Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

The 3 C's of life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make the choice, to take a chance, if you want anything in life to change.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Am I a professor? Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.