I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

I just want to do really good work.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.