To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

I don't want to be THE president, but I would like to have A president.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'