Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.

We determine the destiny of our nation

No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Truth sounds paradoxical!

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves