"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."

"It is a unyielding truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."