Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

No social stability without individual stability.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

He only is rich who owns the day.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.