We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

As crazy as it may sound, it's like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it's just me and my candy.

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.

I've got a friendly smile, a greeting smile, and a you-know-exactly-what-I'm-thinking smile.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

I've never been a blind romantic.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.