I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

The world will continue to be hit by natural disasters and hateful mass killings, but communities bounce back stronger, so keep going.

Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.

Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.

Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.

Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.

Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

The arctic loneliness of age.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.