The most valuable asset in any company isn't its machinery—it's the people who operate it.

"The world is, in the end, what we say it is."

"There is no such thing as a happy ending. There are just good places to stop."

We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.