We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.
It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
