SWITCH TO B.O.L.D Goals. Don't stick too much to S.M.A.R.T goals because it ignores changes, insults your potential, and kills your passion & creativity. Instead, aim for B.O.L.D (Big, Optimistic, Liberating, Dramatic) goals.

This is the simplest rule for greatness and comfort: Do your best and pray for the rest.

Let's begin today, and say this everyday.

Savor the now, secure the next.

The greatest self help is to seek help from the Greatest.

Addiction is good if you are addicted to what is good.

Life is a drama - you need a role to play and a foe to slay.

SWITCH FOR a Bigger Self. You may have that childhood dream of living in an isolate paradise where everything is abundant & comfortable. But it does not help you grow. You need to envision yourself as being capable of taking risks, solving problems & dealing well with even the most unlikable persons you could imagine.

SWITCH OFF Biased Thinking Over-optimism & over-pessimism won't serve you the best. Just balance both. Be optimistic to have the energy to continue your journey, & be pessimistic to avoid possible downfalls.

SWITCH FROM the Busy Life. Stop acting like everybody's hero. It will just waste your precious time & energy and make them irresponsible. Instead, just follow your Path and do only the tasks w/c you can do best and w/c can make the most impact to yourself & to the world.

SWITCH ON Bullet-speed Learning & Acting! Learn from a lot of people who have already reached where you want to be right now - from their own stories of struggles, mistakes & failures. Having learned, immediately ACT! It's the non-negotiable ingredient to self-growth.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

Its not about having a specific set time both personal and professional lives are 247. Its simply more about making the right allocation to each one and recognizing that its going to be different every single day.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Doubt is a creature within the air.It grows when someone hesitates.

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Always know that in every girl, there is a princess with a strength of a warrior.

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.