Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Love is my religion, love is my destiny.

My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.