“Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.”

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It’s so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we’re serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

I think the industry finally gets it. They’ve lost the connection with the American public, and they’ve got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time.

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon “that” which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss.

Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.

I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.

Ideas come through us, not from us.