Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

Only God can satisfy and set us free.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.