Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

We need to develop people rather than process them.

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

Opportunity always knocks

...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.