Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.