"I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences."

"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."

"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'"

"And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier."

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."