Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.
You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
I don't see a difference between a biological family and an adoptive one. I think the difference is more in the eyes of others around you, who might judge because you're not the same skin color as your parents.
Age for me is just a number.
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride. . . I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.