When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.