I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse.

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.