The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

You are a child of humanity and every day is your precious birthday.

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.