Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate.

Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

Please don't quote me.

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.