Most people get better when they face competition.

My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

We are not seeking to impose a recall.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

People at any stage will profit by taking the wheel and getting pointed in the right direction.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.