What are they afraid of? — What are your audience’s pain points and how can you alleviate them? One of the most important questions of all.

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

What change are you seeking to make?

How will it change your status?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

We are limited only by our thoughts

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

Sorry’ is, indeed, one of the most difficult and most powerful words in the English language, provided one can feel and say it at the same time.

I don't talk about the past.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

I have a dog whose name is Banquo.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

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.

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.