If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too muc….

It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut..

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those front….

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I cons….

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness..

Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the be….

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory….

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain..

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith..

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it..

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous..

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet..

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back..

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever..

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; t….

I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I t….

There's just so much out there and so much inspiration... I just want to be tasteful..

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West..

You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come….

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that..