Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.