Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

I trust men only because I trust God.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.