"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."

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."

"It is a quiet truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."