"It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one."

“It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.”

“You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.”

“The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.”

Source : "CNN 25 'They Said What' - Top 25 Soundbites". "CNN Presents" with Tony Harris and Larry King, edition.cnn.com. November 26, 2005.

“They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.”

“When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding,”

“I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.”

“I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.”

“I built my entire life on the idea of independence.”

Source : "First Lady Without a Portfolio (or a Ring) Seeks Her Own Path" by Maïa de la Baume, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2012.