"What are the most important problems in your field? Why aren't you working on them?” "Everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people who were no smarter than you.” “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothings going to change. It's not.” “We all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.” “We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.” "All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one." “Critique by creating.” "You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally." "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." "Do, or do not. There is no try." "And I took that personally." "Never tell me the odds" "The fearful are caught as often as the bold." "If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be _any_ good is to try to be as great as the best." "Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of, are the ones who do the things that no one can imagine." "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” "If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad.” "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." “Self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself.” "Relax for the same result." "You're gonna need a bigger boat.” “The best revenge is living well.” "What a beautiful day. If only I'd realized that sooner." "There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.” "Just keep swimming.” “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar, every 'supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” "Integrity needs no rules." “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” "The only thing people will remember about you is whether you were there for them in their moment of need." “I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” “What convinces is conviction” "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." “A leader is a dealer in hope.” “Any man who must say, I am the king, is no true king.” "Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten." "We humans are all the same, every last one of us. For some it’s drink, some it’s women, some even religion, family, the king, dreams, children, power, all of us had to spend our lives drunk on something, else we’d have no cause to keep pushing on. Everyone was a slave to something." "When a woman asks 'Tell me why do you love me?' it's a very good question, because there is no answer to it. The paradox is the moment you can answer it, it is by definition not love." “Never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you.” "Stress comes from ignoring things you shouldn't be ignoring" “Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” "Only boring people get bored" "The Answer to the Great Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything, is forty-two." "The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." "But I am nothing, and so I am finally free to be myself." "If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good." "The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain't gonna have a life. Don't forget to visit your mother." “The only difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.” "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" “You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.” "If I am worth something later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning." "What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world belongs to you." "The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful." "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." "Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity." "As time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which nature has chosen" "Young man, in mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." "I love my films, I make them for me; Everyone else is invited." "Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details." “There are no two words in the English language more harmful than ‘good job.’” "Work with the garage door up" "Do what you need to do first" "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" “Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?” "If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it." “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.” "Plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable" "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." "For every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots." "Evil is whatever distracts." “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” “A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.” “You fucking doughnut of course you don't microwave a salad.” "Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them." "It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it." “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” “Your mother was programmed by biology to love you the moment she laid her eyes on you. Just because she had no choice doesn't mean her love wasn't real” "Whenever I get that sad, depressed, feeling, I go out and kill a policeman." "Looks like meat's back on the menu" “But say then, for a moment, that this is also evil. And say that I choose this evil to spare others that same choice. This must be done. Does that not make me good?” "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." "Big brother is watching." "I'll be back."