"Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
"When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?"
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."