One has to live a life that creates a writer.
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.
I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.
You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.
I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!
You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.
I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.