When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Cowboys dont go around breaking hearts.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Wilderness begins where the road ends; and if the roads never end, there never will be any wilderness.

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

In Network marketing, the people who attract, train and motivate the most sales people earn the most money.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.