In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

Pooh, " said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know, " said Pooh humbly.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

I believe strongly that to whom much is given, much is required - we are a blessed nation - and that the United States could affect suffering in a positive way.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.