Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

Labels are for cans, not for people.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.