La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Weddings mainly are for drinkers.

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.