I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.