A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Imagination coupled with skepticism and an ability to wonder is the secret.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.