As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a strap wrapped around the whole house and ratcheted it tight to attach the...

I’d like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Die Judenfrage,’ it used to be called, even by Jews. ‘The Jewish Question.’ I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing...

Decide.Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide.Decide to meet it with love and understanding.Decide to meet it with a proactive spirit that believes that a solution, an...

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

As always, the solutions is the simplest way: we have to start and lead by example.

I’m convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive – that challenge conventional thinking – and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way…why change?...

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.