A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Information is bad for knowledge.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.