As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

I faced a fear and on the other side I found passion. Don’t let fear hold you back, you never know what you might find.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.