"The greatest deception is forgetting that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"The silent observer understands that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."