“People tell me, “I’m glad you said that.” But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.”

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he’d have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Long before I was a star, I was a fan.

In real life, when someone’s partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Solve a real problem. You don’t start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

I can tell when something’s real, or when something’s put together. I can just feel it.