I always try to push myself to do something different.
Challenges are opportunities in disguise.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always help you.
I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve.
I paid no attention to the territorial boundaries of academic disciplines and I just grabbed all the big ideas that I could.