Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Knowledge is all about knowing it and Intelligence is all about using it

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Silence does good to the soul.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.