Stanford University

There's usually somebody else who can do your job, but there's nobody else who can be a loving child or a devoted parent.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods.

You don't outgrow art. The same work can mean something different at each stage of your life.

The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity. And while there is a part of us that is scared, there's also a part of us that isn't scared.

To be a good doctor, a good researcher, is to be one who can listen, assimilate and diagnose information from without, but can also listen and hear what is being said from within themselves.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity.