Stay true to yourself because it goes a long way. If you don't know who you are, who are you really?

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

I think it would be great if we got along with Russia because we could fight ISIS together, as an example.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

I know I'm the most influential.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.