We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good, " I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.