In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.
Never assume someone is smarter than you.
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.
All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.