If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.