"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam."

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

"I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge."

"Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."