Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Normal is just a settng on your dryer

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.