It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.