An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.