Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.