Philosophical

You are imperfect. Your knowledge is never complete. Your skills are never infallible. Yet you have to act. You cannot let yourself become paralyzed by fear — yet you cannot blind yourself to failure either.

A connection should probably make you feel a little uneasy. Because if you make a connection it means you're beginning to take responsibility for that person's life.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy—and at significantly lower expense than that needed for use of the hard power of military involvement.

All of mankind's problems are due to the fact that we do not know what we are and cannot agree on what we wish to become.

It's not whether your attitude is good or bad, but does it define your direction? People usually fall short because they're a degree or two off in attitude, and over time and distance, that can put you in a place far away from where you would like to be.

In any given moment, one lives one's life in one of two ways: either under a threat or for a challenge. If imagination will take you everywhere, then living under a threat will take you nowhere.

The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself.

Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.

You cannot win your life. And like improv, you cannot win your life.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Success, like happiness, can't be pursued. It must ensue as the unintended byproduct of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Nobody remembers the naysayers. In the end, all that endures are the builders, and in the end even the builders are forgotten and all that endures are the ripples of what they built — and that's a good thing.