Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn't be in business.

I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?