Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

If you're confident, then you don't feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they're afraid of admitting their weaknesses.

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.