"An idea meritocracy is a system that brings together smart people and smart concepts."

"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

"Great collaboration feels like playing jazz."

"Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."