And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

You know all is not well when Hell resorts to outsourcing to close deals made with the Devil. Or in this case, a guy named Stan.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.