Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

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.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future in life

What God has asked you to do is not just difficult, it is impossible. He is well able!

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.