Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.