You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say ‘once upon a time’ with me

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.