The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

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.

Sow the seeds of love, kindness and peace.

The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person.

There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.