The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken

I think [Anderson Cooper ] and me both enjoy working, and don't consider it "work," so as long as I'm having fun I will continue at this pace.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

He listens to his trainer real good. He just doesn't listen to me. I still can't get him to do nothing.

Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.