There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

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.

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

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.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.