Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

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.

Until you take your first step, you will not be able to open the door to begin the journey toward your ultimate goal.

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.