Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

There are three reasons to be in business. To make money, to have fun – and to make money.

It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing.