Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes that's it.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

I had a teacher he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City and he said 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Find a good teacher as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner my acting teacher told us. When you create a character it's like making a chair except instead of making someting out of wood you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black woman mother dyke teacher etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

If you come into success too soon you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

With the success of the last three or so years when a lot of people start treating you differently there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say 'Hey wake up!'

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

All of us are born for a reason but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture people start asking two questions which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded in touch in love connected emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

The only question to ask yourself is how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others you will build up yourself.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with all these fabulous women 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent you can achieve success.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets really.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!