“We don't forget (them), ... I've never been to Iraq, I would love to go. And I would love to sit down with every family member, the wife that's left over here to carry the load. I've been with a friend with three children who's carried the load while her husband was in a war, so I would say, 'You're not forgotten. We support you, you're fighting for a free country, you are fighting to make this world a better place for all of us.”

“[Most recently he wrote the song] We've Got Nothing but Love to Prove, ... Fireflies.”

“Just deal with it.”

“Like We Never Loved At All.”

It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and in the simple, important, enduring things. Most of those I know are either rushing about blindly, almost headlong, or inching along, looking down. Both methods of progression are, in a spiritual sense, not progression at all, but symptoms of fear.No matter what has happened or what you fear will happen, you have to walk as though you were going somewhere—not in a hurry, not at a crawl, and certainly not running away from something toward you know not what.It cannot be said too often, or by too many people, that the path we follow must be taken a step at a time—never on the run, and never standing still, neither going backward nor marking time. Everyone hazards a guess at the future—his own, the future of those he loves, the future of the country and the world. Statisticians often come up with some amazing suggestions; so do computers; but no one really knows. Only He know, Who created this world in all its beauty, and our small selves, with it. And it's just as well that we don't know.

No matter what your family happens to be like, it affects you, affects who you are. It matters.

“Two trends will cycle high in our culture: cocooning, our desire to shelter ourselves from the harsh realities of our world, and fantasy adventure, our hunger for the new and unconventional.”

“It's a teeny, tiny brain chip that's inserted at will ... (that) will give you language (skills or other) knowledge,”

“We won't have to learn French, we'll know French. It'll extend our health and monitor our pulse and blood pressure. I think we're going to see that shift in the next 30 years.”

“We do a lot of brainstorming with our talent base of 6,500 experts globally,”