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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
Hard work pays off — hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers — poets, actors, journalists — they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.
Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.
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