Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. |

If everyone likes your design, it's banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it. |

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. |

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. |

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. |

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. |

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. |

A prototype is a question, embodied. |

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. |

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. |

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure. |

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. |

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. |

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make. |

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. |

Those without substance suffer no wounds. |

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them. |

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. |

Fundamentally you cannot be somebody else. You can only be less of who you are. |

The law is an opinion with a gun. |

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth. |

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. |

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. |

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. |