You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.