"I think you're working and learning until you die."

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

"It is a humble truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war."

"Life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."