Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

The best plans are always the simplest.

I love you always. Time is nothing.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.