The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

Respecting differences is very difficult.