We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here.

Love doesn't need your permission, that's what hope is for.

Knowledge is the physical manifestation of consciousness.

The exchange rate for ideas is infinite.

No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are.

Luck often sides with the able.

If time were perfectly symmetric, gravity wouldn't exist.

Emergent behaviors rely on computational geometry and scale.

When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction.

Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves.

Spirituality is not an achievement it is a relationship.

No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

I was born to be your rival, ' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.