Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I will not be triumphed over.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

These morning practices are what fuel me; keeping my routine is not about willpower.

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.

I don't want to pitch forever.

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can to Harvard to higher education and hopefully to education around the world.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, what’s in it for me?

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.