The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.

Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.

Words are free, action is not.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it.

Words do not solve problems, actions do.

If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two he replies four loaves.

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.