Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

He’d stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he’d wished to be that different man. He’d wished to be worthy of her.

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.