"I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money."

"I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important."

"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."

"I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?"

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

"You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom."

"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."