Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.