It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.