The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

His voice is so low I can feel it brushing my waist.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.