Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.