Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

I am not meant to be a biomass, I am a human being and I am born with a mission

We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.