... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and a subdued tone.

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.