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

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

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.

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

Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

Kingdoms divided soon fall.

What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

I am not an Internet superstar.

I'm really drawn to European films.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

We have a two-party system that I think can work well if people make an effort.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.