"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings."

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in."

"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Innovation is not just about having an idea; it's about executing it."

"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."