What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

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.

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.

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.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to do with making comedy.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I'm up at like 6 a.m. With my trainer, running up the hill you drove up to get here.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.