All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

To succeed in life, doing your best is not enough, you should also improve your best.

Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

If it were up to me we'd ban them all.

Steve Wozniak admittedly would never like say the things he said to Steve Jobs [in the movie] in the context that he said them.

The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.