A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.

Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count - and it's those millions of lives that will ultimately build a better world.

The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).

I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

Darling, whose book is this to be?""Ostensibly yours, my sweet""I see -- rather like my life since I met you?""Yes darling

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.