I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I was a geek in high school.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.