We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

We can do nothing on our own except by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?