Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

It's not like I just take the beat, rap on it and take it for what it is, I always have the producer send it to me, loop the track out, move some stuff around.

I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.