"The past is always present in our lives, whether we acknowledge it or not."

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

Never underestimate the power of a diverse team.

We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men.

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.