I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

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.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.