My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Sergei Bubka

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

Source Unknown

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Leighton Meester

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Francis H. Bradley

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Barack Obama

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Ruben Hinojosa

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18

Albert Einstein

I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

Cory Monteith