“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“The trouble with most entrepreneurs is that they would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“At the back of their personal troubles, hopes and fears, this less immediate trepidation grew, this intangible suggestion of change, that most unforgivable of all heresies.”

“We –finally—look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change—always a frontier people, exploring—if not new wilderness—then new science and new knowledge.”

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. ”

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

“As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.”

“I wish to explore what mad people meant to say, what was on their minds. Their testimonies are eloquent of their hopes”