When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.

You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.

I think and that is all that I am.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.