The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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.

There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

Loneliness is the world of self-discovery where undiscovered you buds.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

Your mind is your religion.