People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

Someone once told me love isn’t perfect—or predictable.

To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers

You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.