Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

It is important to remember yourself.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I read poetry to save time.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.