The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within.

To uncover new knowledge, and to find the truth, one must dare venture into the unknown.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.