To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.