I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

If you find yourself always worrying about what the people around you would say if you start being your true positive self, this would mean that you are yet to bond with your true purpose on earth.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.