SWITCH OFF Biased Thinking Over-optimism & over-pessimism won't serve you the best. Just balance both. Be optimistic to have the energy to continue your journey, & be pessimistic to avoid possible downfalls.

This is the simplest rule for greatness and comfort: Do your best and pray for the rest.

Let's begin today, and say this everyday.

Savor the now, secure the next.

The greatest self help is to seek help from the Greatest.

Addiction is good if you are addicted to what is good.

Life is a drama - you need a role to play and a foe to slay.

SWITCH FOR a Bigger Self. You may have that childhood dream of living in an isolate paradise where everything is abundant & comfortable. But it does not help you grow. You need to envision yourself as being capable of taking risks, solving problems & dealing well with even the most unlikable persons you could imagine.

SWITCH TO B.O.L.D Goals. Don't stick too much to S.M.A.R.T goals because it ignores changes, insults your potential, and kills your passion & creativity. Instead, aim for B.O.L.D (Big, Optimistic, Liberating, Dramatic) goals.

SWITCH FROM the Busy Life. Stop acting like everybody's hero. It will just waste your precious time & energy and make them irresponsible. Instead, just follow your Path and do only the tasks w/c you can do best and w/c can make the most impact to yourself & to the world.

SWITCH ON Bullet-speed Learning & Acting! Learn from a lot of people who have already reached where you want to be right now - from their own stories of struggles, mistakes & failures. Having learned, immediately ACT! It's the non-negotiable ingredient to self-growth.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it's a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

I don't even wear miniskirts on a night out, so I definitely won't be wearing miniskirts in the ring.

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.

I never starved myself.

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.