I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.
It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.
You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
