Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

There are a lot of so-called "good Americans" who are really a bunch of bums.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?