Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Independence isn't doing your own thing

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

Anything is possible with Trump.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

Delay always heeds danger.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.