[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.

Because when you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it...Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

Even the smallest magics can grow.

You never need an invitation to go home.

[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.

No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown a seed

You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.