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

I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

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

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

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