Attempts to control complex systems … tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

Don’t make your life complicated.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.