The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

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.

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.

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.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.