“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

All things change; nothing perishes.

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.