If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The greatest gift of life is being wealthy with happiness.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.

Either you make things happen or you quit.

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.