The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

My world is about stories that entertain

Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.