Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. 

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.