Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.

Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.

All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.