i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave.

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.