Inventors often don't know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say 'disruptive,' and tote a 'platform.' They repeat buzzwords over and over, and I think it...

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

If you want people to remember you, make your presence felt.

One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad...

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the...

When you come out, and if you're saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you're not, it's whatever.

We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you...

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are...

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

The broadcast networks - they are literally broad. They try to appeal to everyone. They try to reach all of America, all the time. Increasingly, they fail to do that, but they try.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just...

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

I wrote a letter to the CIA on my manual college typewriter. I mailed it to CIA with my resume. I didn't have an address. So I just put, 'CIA. Washington, D.C.'

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

I feel really passionate now that talking with family, friends, or a counsellor is the way to deal with negative situations and difficult times.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

I came from a world where when you say something, you understand that your words have weight, and you say things that you truly believe.