We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.