The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.