Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

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.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.