I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.
Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.