Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A book should feel like a friend to a child—comforting, exciting, and full of surprises.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Great leaders listen more than they speak.

I think that's what's great about being an actor, is that you can explore all these different lives.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

书籍是最安静、最恒久的朋友；它们是最易接近、最明智的顾问，也是最耐心的老师。