I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. |

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. |

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. |

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time. |

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. |

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. |

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.

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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. |

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. |

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. |

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface, but connected in the deep. |

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. |

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it. |

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. |

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. |

The cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation. |

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' |

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. |

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% inspiration, 9% perspiration, 90% justification. |

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. |

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms. |

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. |

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamppost - for support rather than illumination. |

When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept. [...]
We cannot help living to a very large extent in terms of concepts. We have to do so, because immediate experience is so chaotic and so immensely rich that in mere self-preservation we have to use the machinery of language to sort out what is of utility for us, what in any given context is of importance, and at the same time to try to understand—because it is only in terms of language that we can understand what is happening. We make generalizations and we go into higher and higher degrees of abstraction, which permit us to comprehend what we are up to, which we certainly would not if we did not have language. And in this way language is an immense boon, which we could not possibly do without. |