All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.-Nana Komatsu

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.