When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.