We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.