I would prefer to get lashed rather than go to prison.

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down the book and says, "Oh, it's one of those guys."

Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.

(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.