Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

Don't want to slump over the oars.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Give everyone whose life you touch a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.