The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

My work and my family are very important to me.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

It sure is hell to be president.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.