"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."

"It is a quiet truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The only limit to human potential is the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser."

"You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward."

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a mirror reflecting our own human biases, demanding a new social contract for the digital age."