U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

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.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the notion that dying would not be the last thing he would do.

but at the end of the day, who I come home to, who I share my accomplishments with is what makes the struggle worth it

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

I've had paranoid panic attacks.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.