At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

We live because of the dreams.

The truth is in the kisses.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.