Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

That's the cool thing about relationships. You're relating to someone else. It's another thing to balance who you are off of.

I think social media has a lot of negative impact and negative effects. These are fairly extreme and horrifying and really gruesome.

It's always interesting when you throw two people in a room and have them try to biologically, immediately connect, but that's biology's job.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn.

Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.