The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

For the future. For the unborn.

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

People use music as a utensil to better themselves.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.