The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.