do you have at least one enemy? Good. Invite him or her over for coffee and ask for an honest opinion about your strengths and weaknesses. You will be forever grateful you did.

Achievements have greater appeal as failures, therefore they are systematically overrated. The media usually reportes only about stars, the unsuccessful are not mentioned. Therfore we end up a distorted perception of the real chances. It is useful to study the unsuccessful. #SurvivorshipBias

Behind each successful author hide 100 unsuccessful, behind each unsuccessful there are 100 that did not find a publisher, behind each of them there 100 who have not yet completed their manuscript .... But in the news only the stars get the whole attention.

Should you ever be sent to war, and you don’t agree with its goals, desert.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

The more people do something, the more likely we are willing to follow. But this doesn´t make it automatically right, funny, good... Applause at the concert, laughing at shows, walk over a red traffic light

I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.

The true cure for self righteousness is self knowledge.

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

I love country music.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade

It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

There's no reason to waste time trying to prove who you are to people that don't even know who they are.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.