You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

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.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Strength in peace. Strength in love. Always.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.