Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

To those who would love me - I offer you a warning. Do no get to close. You won't survive.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.