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

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.

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.

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.