No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

There’s only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

Autism is part of who I am.