Perception is real even when it is not reality.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.