Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

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.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.

The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.