It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.