The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.