Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Debt is the worst poverty.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.