I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

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.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

Good council has no price.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.