“The secret to happiness is low expectations.”

“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”

“The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.”

“Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.”

“The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anythi...”

“If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”

“Musics the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. Theres always music. If Im not playing it, Im listening to it. With my writingsometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highl...”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”