Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.

If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there!

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.