Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

In a room with many windowssome thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.