The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

...You mistake other people’s success as your own failure...

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

Never surrender opportunity to security.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.