There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however.

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.