There's no retirement for an artist, its your way of living so theres no end to it.

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.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.