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

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

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

Words and tears are nature's most basic ways of helping us release our feelings of suffering.

If only one of the presidential candidates would make it part of his platform to do something about making Monday part of the weekend. I think he would get a lot of votes.

I'm very interested in science.

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

Seeking higher ground is not a destination but an elevation. Wings up eyes shut open.

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.