I'm not a religious person at all.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film, ' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

A man of the utmost insignificance.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

I do like adrenaline. Zip-lining is my favorite.