From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.

False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

The question is a curious collection of words.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.