When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.

Since the end of the Cold War hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

I love basketball.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

The gift of balance in your life may you find the balance of life time for work but also time for play. Too much of one thing ends up creating stress that no one needs in their life.

I write what I'm interested in.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Urban farming is not only possible it is crucial. But it cant be like the farming techniques of yore.

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.