The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.
'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.
Never let a good crisis go to waste
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
I'm sick of feeling like we're in a decline. Let's look at the good.
The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
Everything is going to change.
In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).
A rough beginning doesn't have to mean there is a rough end.
Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
The pendulum will swing back.
