At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.