Death..." The voice dropped even more, black-gloved hands disappearing into the black folds of material. "Don't you feel it? We're all dead here...all...very...dead.

I'll show you secrets if you stay...you'll never know if you run away...

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.