For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.