We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal - just like everybody else!

You don't have to do it straight away, but just do it before it gets really bad.

I believed I was invincible.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst.