To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.