Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I smile more when people think 'I am fool

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

He who is resolute conquers grief.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.