"Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you."

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.”

“I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.”

Source : Oscar Award for Best Leading Actor Acceptance Address, Delivered 23 March 2003, Kodak Theater, Hollywood, California

“I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.”

Source : Source: www.pmakid.com

“Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.”

“I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.

“You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.”

“We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”