Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

Do not allow yourself to be obsessed on failures

Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.

Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.

Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.