Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.

When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long.

I think, with Wi-Fi, we'll make L.A. a better place for our constituents.

I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.