The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only since it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.