Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.

The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.