If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.