Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

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.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.