Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.