"I am doing enough to survive but it isn’t the same as living."

“A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.”

“I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.”

“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.”

“This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.”

“Being, not doing, is my first joy.”

“The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,”

Source : "Syrian President: U.S.-led airstrikes have caused 'no change' in ISIS strength" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

“I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.”

“I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.”