Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.