Love is like a pair of polarized sunglasses, making every color seem more vivid, richer, warmer. Without it we stare at the world dull-eyed and flinch at the thought it might remain the same forever.

That’s what I like about Polynesians. They wear their hearts on their sleeve knowing that, for adults, there are better games to play than hiding their emotions from each other

I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel—travel is a carnival of wild affairs.

Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life’s absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.

By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.