If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -Margaret Fuller

The only way to be happy is to be living right now. -Yvon Chouinard

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha’. Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality. -Alan Kay

At some point, someone who worked at Rockefeller Center must have said, “Boys, I have a great idea for Christmas. Let’s kill a beautiful tree that’s been alive for seventy-five years and bring it to New York City. We’ll stand it up in Rockefeller Plaza and conceal its natural beauty by hanging shiny, repulsive, man-made objects on it, and let it stand there slowly dying for several weeks while simpleminded children stare at it and people from Des Moines take pictures of it. That way, perhaps we can add our own special, obscene imprint to Christmas in Midtown. -George Carlin

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. -Christopher Morley

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? -Scott Turow

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” -Don Marquis

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. -Hafez