"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.” "The world is a museum of passion projects." "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." "Greatness comes from character and character isn’t formed out of smart people—it’s formed out of people who suffered." "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.” "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." "If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad.” “Self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself.” "Relax for the same result." "You're gonna need a bigger boat.” "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.” "Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do.” "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.” "Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten." "It is said that one should keep one’s allies within view, and one’s enemies within reach... But what of friends? There is no accepted answer, perhaps friendship is so exceedingly rare. But I had formulated my own. A friend need not be kept within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his present. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone." "A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee’s existence. Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations." "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." “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" “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." "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy? Turns out you're fucking stupid." "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." “The only difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.” “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." "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." "Procrastination is the enemy of the human race." "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." "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them the tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." “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." “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." “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.” "Big brother is watching." “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” "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" “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." "I'll be back."