Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

My background is in improv and writing.