Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Mehmet Oz

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Sally Kirkland

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Sherrod Brown

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Seamus Heaney

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

Simon Mainwaring

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Bridget Moynahan

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Van Morrison

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Matthew Prior