People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

You’re not going to learn anything if you’re not prepared to go flat, so I’m very happy to go flat.

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.