It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

Heaven will always support your godly move be it a righteous cause or be it a desire to see people free from what has held them down.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.