I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

I'm inspired by having fun; I'm inspired by people.

We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.