People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.

When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

Society is unity in diversity.

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.

I just don't believe in generalisations.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.