"I'm concentrating very much on my role as a father. I'm a new father and I take my duties and responsibilities to my family very seriously and I want to bring my children up as good people with the idea of service and duty to others as very important. But if I can't give my time to my children as well, I worry about their future."
— Prince William, 2016, criticized for uncompromisingly seeking a secluded, 'normal' life for his young family out of the public eye
"You need a strong, unified family base to allow you to have courage to go out there and take risks you probably wouldn't have taken without that strong foundation to fall back on."
— L.L. Cool J
"Every time I take a shower, I turn off the hot water after I'm all cleaned up, and let it run cold. Standing under cold water for 10 minutes releases my mind from everything – good and bad. It gives me a mental break and lets my body deal with the state of discomfort. It also reminds me of the life I left behind and that I can make it through anything."
— Marcus Lutrell, former SEAL and author of Lone Survivor
"About 12 years ago, I was running a lot and feeling the wear and tear on my knees, so I decided to try yoga. It was the answer.... It tones my body, soothes my stress, and gives me energy. My creativity and focus came back and it changes my whole spirit."
— Tommy Hilfiger
"My Andes experience taught me not to lie. There was no sense in lying when we were so close to death. At home my children were born with the story. When my son, Hilario, was four years old, he was asked, 'Did you know that your daddy ate his friends.' My son answered in a very natural way, 'Yes, come along and I'll tell you what happened.'"
— Dr. Roberto Canessa
"All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me years to discover what I was. Which was a writer. By which I mean not a 'good' writer or a 'bad' writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper."
— Joan Didion
"You have to build habits that keep your energy high. This is my formula: (1) Vigorous exercise: When I have a great workout, I rarely have a bad day. (2) Good fuel: When I eat clean, my energy rarely sags. (3) Good partners: Working with positive people keeps your spirits up. (4) Balance: I pray and I also laugh a lot. You won't have focus without balance. (5) A goal: A worthy challenge will take care of your motivation for you."
— Eric Greitens, former SEAL, author, and current Governor of Missouri
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up."
— Mark Twain
"Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world, or consulting with a doctor face-to-face – just by putting on goggles in your home. Virtual reality was once a dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones."
— Mark Zuckerberg
"I think it was important for me both in the (foreign) films I was watching and in the travel I was doing to see, despite the distances, how similar we all are in some ways. And I don't mean that to eradicate the differences because I think our uniqueness is special too, but it's nice to know that we're all wrestling with life and consciousness. I think when you travel, you get that in a very visceral way.... I'm a storyteller. I'm a storyteller while always trying to become a better man, you know? That's who I am."
— Barry Jenkins, writer and director of Moonlight which won the Oscar for Best Picture
"If it was easy, everyone would do it. You have to be a little bit crazy; you have to have gumption and tenacity. A lot of people give up at the first roadblock. But, for entrepreneurs, if there isn't another road, we create it. We break concrete; we throw dynamite; we figure it out."
— Jessica Alba, actress and businesswoman
"Obama... noted at one point that even in the nation's darkest moments he gains strength – and perspective – by tapping into an abiding sense of optimism. It is a heartening notion in an era of blaring headlines, instant analysis, and perishable soundbites."
— Vanity Fair magazine
"I try to be a realistic optimist: I'm very clinical about where we are today, but extremely optimistic about what we're going to get done in the future."
— Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest
"They say that in your 20s you're trying to work out the man
that you want to be, and in your 30s you discover who he is. And warped
and all, beer gut and all, brain damage and all, you just kind of go,
'Well, this is it, and I might as well try to polish it a tiny bit.' I'm
stuck with who I am, but I can be man enough to iron out the creases."
— Sam Worthington, actor
"If I'm given a negative view, then I'll take that and work harder. You just have to get through anything that's irrelevant or a personal attack, and you might find the gold nugget that can take you to the next level and closer to what you want to achieve in life.... Naomi Watts says it took her 10 years to become an 'overnight success.' And what about Geoffrey Rush? He was almost 50 when Shine hit."
— Sam Worthington
"The sort of life that I had had previous to this popular success was one that required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers to every inch of rock higher than the one caught hold of before, but it was a good life because it was the sort of life for which the human organism is created."
— Tennessee Williams
"Purity of heart is the one success worth having."
— Tennessee Williams
"'Every day I wake up and there's a barn owl in my bed,' he says. Fortunately, (Simon) Rouse's girlfriend doesn't mind. Nor does she mind the the kestrel (a kind of falcon) flying around the living room, or the 30 birds – all of which are capable of snapping the neck of a rabbit or even a fox – living in cages outside his home. Sure, there are aviaries for birds like this. Rouse just prefers the roommate situation. 'To me, it's normal,' he says. 'But to everyone else, I suppose I'm kind of a freak.'"
— Men's Health magazine
"It's so tempting... to retreat to narrow arrogance, pre-formed positions, rigid filters, the 'moral clarity' of the immature. The alternative is dealing with massive, high-entropy amounts of info and ambiquity and conflict and flux; it's continually discovering new areas of personal ignorance and delusion. In sum, to really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. That's about as clearly as I can put it."
— David Foster Wallace
"If my career had turned out like the fantasy I had of what it was going to be, it would never have made me happy. But I couldn't have known that until it didn't happen. I found a success that is so much bigger and deeper and better, and it's because it happened later. If any of what I'm having happen now – the successes – would have happened to me when I was younger, I would have been ruined. Because when you're young, and things comes super easily to you, and you have successes right out of the gate, you're liable to think that's how it actually works. You start to think you don't need to be fully prepared or committed to have these things meet you.... I muscled a lot of what I've achieved by sheer force of will and relentless determination. And I wasn't hearing a lot of 'Everything's going to be fine.'"
— Sarah Paulson, actress
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
— Thomas Jefferson
"We're all dying, but if you're not chasing your dream, you're already dead."
— Steve Mazan, who is still alive despite being told 12 years ago that he had inoperable liver cancer and less than five years to live
"The part came very easily for me – which doesn't say much for my mental health."
— Anthony Hopkins on his role as Hannibal Lector
"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very happy to be anywhere.... I can't afford to die. I'm booked. I'd lose a fortune.... I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.... I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it."
— Comedian George Burns who lived to be 100 and continued to work until his death
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest
of my life.... Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples....
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can
fake that, you've got it made.... I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.... I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.... In those days, the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it."
— George Burns
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