I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Most things remain undone. Glorious future!

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

Contrary to popular belief, " Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps." Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.