I'm like those placid dogs a family buys when the dog they choose first is too high strung. I'm the pet's pet.
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlight...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...