A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

Work backward from your goal.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more.

Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.