So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.