You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.

Rejecting Jesus Christ is like a fugitive who spends all day running but has nowhere to hide

God is what you imagine him to be

Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93, 000, 000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.