Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

With conscious effort, you can be a reader.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

I was going to stay overnight at my friend's house - he said, "you'll have to sleep on the floor." Damn gravity! You don't know how bad I wanted to sleep on the wall.

An algorithm is like a recipe.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.