Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.
Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities. . . in the clashes of difference.
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.
Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.