"Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer."

“You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future”

“I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other.”

“Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.”

“I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.”

“By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.”

“I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.”

“The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.”

“Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.”