If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

I think the future of food is in insects.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.