"I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness."

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”

“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”

“Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.”

“You become what you think. You are what you eat.”

“Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still know nothing about the life force - about the basic difference between being alive and not being alive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

“I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.”

“The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.”

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.”