The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.