Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.