The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

The power of patient is the greatest survival skills.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.