Witty

Find ways to make work seem like play, or perhaps make play into something that you get paid to do.

Sometimes we need an event to shock us into the present. Some of us require a catastrophic experience to remind us that we are indeed alive. Others know this from their reading of poetry — a somewhat less traumatic experience.

Between chutzpah and humility lies success. The biggest killer of a good mind is to stick it in a fat head.

Insist that we support science and the arts, especially the arts. They have nothing to do with the actual defense of our country — they just make our country worth defending.

Why take the trip if you're not going to enjoy the ride?

If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people — or find a different room.

It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is — now.

Right at this moment in your life, you have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you. If you have a dream, now is the time to pursue it, before you buy furniture.

We come in naked and broke. We may be dressed when we go out, but we're just as broke.

We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion — and for precisely the same reason articles of fashion are worn, which is to make the wearer look better and to feel a la mode.

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. It required no intellectual effort whatsoever. Suddenly he was elevated to a plane from which he could look down upon ordinary people.