“Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it.”

“It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.”

“A simple strategy that will save you so many headaches: don’t care about winning trivial arguments. Did someone say something you don’t agree with? Smile, nod, and move on to more important things. Life is short. Learning to not care about having the last word will save you so much time.”

“The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no.”

“I was constantly surprised by how much people didn’t know. That’s one of the things about traveling, one of the things you learn: many people in the world, even educated ones, don’t know much, and it doesn’t actually matter at all.”

“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”

“I think it's important to learn boundaries for yourself and how much you have the right to place boundaries on others, I would say is a big thing.”

“The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.”

“I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.”