"To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly."

“Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.”

“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.”

Source : "The Illusion of Total Security". Radcliffe Commencement Address on June 16, 1954. The Atlantic Monthly, No.194, August 1954.

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

Source : Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.90, Penguin

“The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.”

“I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.”

“Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.”

“Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.”

Source : Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

“Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.”