I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

This way of life is worth defending.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.