“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”
“Knowledge makes everything simpler.”
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”