I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion that's when everything unfolds.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius especially ambitious young men and women.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs things today might have been different.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

I wouldn't call myself a feminist because I think there are differences between men and women.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm and women are always expected to act like men we will never be as good at being men as men are.

When the British came to Ibo land for instance at the beginning of the 20th century and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places and set up their administrations the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

To be outspoken or different at all is a problem for women.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds why you are going to do that.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media politics and publishing the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture murder expulsion displacement bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war and I think we need to step back recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people and resetting our position in the world.

You should be careful what you wish for as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives but others can have different agendas.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession a war of independence no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

You know the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked and you made a living if you could and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.