Be curious, not judgmental.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Wisdom begins at the end.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Think globally, act locally.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.