Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The world only remembers the winners.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed.As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Before you speak, listen.