Roger von Oech

Humor helps people open up.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.