Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.

Treat your entire audience with the same level of care.

The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.

People do not want more noise in their social media streams. They want entertainment, uplifting conversations, and products that last. Most importantly, they want to be taken seriously.

People will never respond to you more positively than when you seek to make your impact felt at the human level.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Family is not an important thing, it is everything

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Life with trials hard may press me

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

The thing about chemistry, it's sort of you get along with a person and then sort of if the movie does well, then you have great chemistry.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.