The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!