My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I was a geek in high school.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

We often forget that growth requires sacrifice.

Faith is the spiritual house in which we live.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.