We recognized early on that smart people do very dumb things, and we wanted to know why and who, so that we could avoid them.

You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed.

"Books are empathy machines. They allow us to step into someone else's shoes and see the world through their eyes."

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

To love is to see the world through another's eyes.