People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

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

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 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.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

I'm not a complicated person.

I'm normal size... I wish we could all be known as models rather than plus size.