When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...

Every heart, it have its own ache.

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.