How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?