"What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?"

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

“In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.”

“I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.”

“Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.”

“I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.”

Source : "Cars That Drive Themselves". Interview with Jason Spingarn-Koff and Joe Seamans, www.pbs.org. March 28, 2006.

“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.”

“We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.”

“What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.”