Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn’t completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.