I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.

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.

We Live and we Learn but we don't always Laugh.

But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.

There is a girl who still writes you

My country has been very good to me I must be good to my country.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

There is a world elsewhere.