The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I think we should support entrepreneurialship.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.