I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

A lot of people don't even know there was a Journey before Steve Perry.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.