I am fundamentally an optimist.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.