Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror

That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.