Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.
But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
People leave managers, not companies
