An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

If you think you can't, why think

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.

I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.