I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

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.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.