For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.

The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.