“To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.”

I’d like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don’t hesitate to say so – which they and I cherish.

When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.

School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.

Today I am imagining the best things that could happen.

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

I still do Juvederm for my lips. I go to Dr. Ourian in Beverly Hills. He’s the best, and he’s super natural about it.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best – fighting for a living.

The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.