When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.