It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.