It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.