A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Letter to Harry S. Truman.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

Superman don't need no seat belt. Comment to a flight attendant, who replied: "Superman don't need no airplane, either."

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore. Talking about when he tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope, 2005.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'