I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.