We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

It's much more enjoyable being an actor.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

Life isn't a life without fitness.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.