For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.