It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Richness does not exist in being wealthy, richness exists in having abundance in life.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Use the fear

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.