A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.