"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?”

Source : "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

“The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.”

“Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”

“As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”

Source : "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

“I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.”