Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?

What was your first job?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

What are you reading right now?

If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Who’s someone you really admire?

Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?

Got any favorite quotes?

What was your favorite band 10 years ago?

What’s your earliest memory?

Been anywhere recently for the first time?

What’s your favorite family tradition?

Who had the most influence on you growing up?

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?

What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?

Seen anything lately that made you smile?

What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

How do you like your eggs?

Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?

Got any phobias you’d like to break?

Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?

Do you collect anything?

What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Argue for your limitations and they're yours.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

It is every producer's dream to be part of a dedicated, hard-working team that produces an outstanding broadcast like the 'CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.'

There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics - which is like Tourette Syndrome - OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.

Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But you minimize those risks by keeping one hand on the pump that is producing for you.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

A married man is a man with a past while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.