Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

Being a mom can be so isolating, and hanging out with other moms is very, very healthy.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.