Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.