Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

My favorite time is now, like tonight, under a full moon. When a thousand crystals are sparkling at us. It's almost magical, isn’t it?

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.

I don't have any regrets. There's no point regretting anything because everything that you do gives you more experience and potentially makes you a stronger person or a better person.