If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

Cleverness is a gift; kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with yourgifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

People overestimate the Rolling Stones. I don't think the Stones areas good as people think. Obviously I think the Stones are a very good band.