We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

People who solve problems are happier.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

For ye are a corpuscle in the body of God; thus a co-creator with Him, in what ye think, in what ye do.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.