It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Naïve, and very very dangerous. If she only knew what treacherous waters she has just stepped into.

A friend won't always be there, at times you are on your own, but alone you still may find light.

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.