Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave.

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.