For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems."

The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.

Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.

I would never want to change myself to be someone I'm not.

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Everyone finds their voice at different times in their life.

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.