I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

We need to support Mary Burke for Governor!

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii