A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .