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

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.

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.

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

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.

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

I do a lot of comedy and I like that. I am happy doing funny films. I am often the straight person in a comedy, which is great as long as there are talented people to work with.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.