America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

You're my rose and I am the dew sticked to you who never wants to fall apart.

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.