“What gays and lesbians have to teach other Americans is that morality is how you live and how you conduct yourself, not what you happen to be.”

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”

“Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.”

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“For me, the first challenge for computing science is to discover how to maintain order in a finite, but very large, discrete universe that is intricately intertwined. And a second, but not less important challenge is how to mould what you have achieved in solving the first problem, into a teachable discipline: it does not suffice to hone your own intellect (that will join you in your grave), you must teach others how to hone theirs. The more you concentrate on these two challenges, the clearer you will see that they are only two sides of the same coin: teaching yourself is discovering what is teachable.”

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”