"It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life."

“What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.”

“Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.”

“Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.”

Source : "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

“There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.”

“News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all”

Source : Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.2, Random House

“Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...”

“A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more interesting comically, because not everybody can figure it out.”

“Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.”