I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.
Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
