• Not having what one wants is better than not knowing what one wants.
• The natural state of the universe is chaos tending towards peace. Life is the outcome.
• Books can teach but experience makes one remember. You can learn to play an instrument from a book but play it only with practice.
• General covariance may not hold. The universe is too big and our sample too small to say definitively.
• Inspiration is difficult. When inspiring people, you have to give them something fundamental, something infinite and something unattainable.
• A revolution means to come a full circle.
• Joy is something we are born with, but forget gradually.
• Optimists need talent, talent needs optimism
• Once you understand something, you can control it
• We only ever see the past
• Love is just the ultimate absence of hatred
• To observe is to interact