Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

There's a phrase in Buddhism, 'Beginner's mind.' It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

The greatest pleasure I've had is trying to do something that everybody says could not be done.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.