The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

If you believe, don't worry. If you don't believe you will get all dressed up with nowhere to go.

When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark.

If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode.

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.

I can't help but watch his lips as they cover the opening of the bottle that my lips were just touching. We're practically kissing.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

I was at the foot of my class.

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?