The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

You ask me to write you a poem, I pen you an empty ocean, You run away.You ask me who I am, I paint you a breaking sky, You weep in the rain.

A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better.

Nothing is purely evil.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.