We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

ISIS and Al-Qaeda and whoever else, that is the only way they stop is after we convert. That’s what they say. The only way this stops is when the infidels convert.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.