If you do not understand yourself, you will never understand the world around. The biggest world is within, outside views are our perceptual creation.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.