"By nature I'm not a brooder."

"My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s."

"Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."