Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.